#RPGaDay2017 Day 30: Gaming Mixology

Welcome dear reader to Day 30 of #RPGaDay2017. Tomorrow is the end for 2017. The month has just flown by! The topic for today’s discussion is:

August 30: What is an RPG genre-mashup you would most like to see?

When you think about it, many mashups that come to mind are either already out there, in one form or another, and would be easy enough to adapt to an RPG. Space cowboys? From Firefly to Bravestar! Angel Miranda, from ARMR Studios mentioned a western-fantasy combination in his video for today, that’s a mix I’d certainly like to see, specially a fantasy world with western elements, not a fantastic version of the west. There are books and comics that meet the criteria of a western-fantasy mash up. There is an interesting a list here.

Our own Felipe González at Desde la Fosa talks about his mash up in today’s video (link at the end of this post), Cartoons & Cthulhu! I love that idea! You could certainly do it with Toon, with a liberal application of Lovecraftian madness. No exactly what he asked for, but there is Meddling Kids, a Scooby Doo inspired game. And for something completely different. Here are the lyrics to the Tiny Toons theme song sung by Cthulhu.

Not long ago I was posting in social media about mixing steampunk and the classic cyberpunk-fantasy mashup Shadowrun. Me and some friends had conversation on how we’d do it, and lo and behold I discovered this, 1879. Not quite what I had in mind, but there exists. Victorian steampunk superheroes? Kerberos Club! Mechs and Chthulhu, Cthulhutech! Cthulhu and steampunk/Victoriana are probably the genres most mashed up with others. Are they truly the bacon of gaming?

So, this is more a matter of what YOU want to see, not of whether someone out there has done it or not… What mashups would I like to see?

“But wait Roberto! That’s an existing series, and it’s not a mashup…” Excellent point! But my mashup is Space 1989, this would be different from the 70s, staring Martin Landau, Space: 1999. Space 1989 would be the future of the Space 1889 setting! A mash up of the Victorian proto-steampunk adventures projected 100 years in the future. What would the year 1989 of the Space 1889 future be like? I may even use the conceit of the series in this new context. I think it would be fun.

A runner up for a mashup game would be my recent idea for Starfinder. I’m stull reading the book, but I would tone down the fantasy aspect of the science fantasy equation and do a mash up of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers with the comic Hammerlocke and Atari Force. But this idea is still percolating…

The next to last video response to the questions for #RPGaDay2017 is available at the Desde la FosaYouTube channel. Felipe’s answer is in Spanish, if you speak the language we appreciate the views, if you don’t, we are thankful for any shares.

What genre mashup would you like to see? Let us know. See you all tomorrow for the final instalment of #RPGaDay2017.

Welcome reader, thanks for taking the time to find out just who I am! My name is Roberto, although in the Internet I usually go by the name of Sunglar. Long time pen & paper RPG player, mostly a GM for the better part of that time; some will say that’s because of my love of telling a good story, others because I’m a control freak, but that’s debatable… I was born, raised, and still live in Puerto Rico, an island in the Caribbean, with a small but active gaming community.

I’ve played RPGs for 30 years, and for most of that time I played D&D in all its various permutations, including Pathfinder and I'm currently playing D&D 5th edition. Other games my regular gaming group has played over the last few years include Mutants & Masterminds and Savage Worlds, but I have played many other games through the years, and plan to play many more. I am a compulsive homebrewer and rarely play a campaign I have not created myself.

You can follow me on Twitter as @Sunglar, and find me in Google+ also as Sunglar. I'm very active in Facebook where you can find me posting regularly in the Puerto Rico Role Players group. Looking forward to hearing from you!

2 thoughts on “#RPGaDay2017 Day 30: Gaming Mixology”

This came up earlier today but we did the classic computer game Doom with Rolemaster fantasy PCs plus lots of demons. To give it the real Doom feel the characters were even respawning if they were killed. So DoomMaster is my mashup of choice.

Mine also uses “the future of space 1889”, but in the 1930s, as dieselpunk.

Space 1889, mutant chronicles (for the over all set up and dieselpunk feel), actung Cthulhu (the secret wars and intermeshing of dark legion/old ones/Nazis), Sun of Suns, and maybe some of rocketship empires, steam wars, skyship enterprise, and skies of fire.

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